Friday, September 11, 2009 - Page 2
In Real Life

Foreign Otaku Results Hit Japanese Newsstands

Just a heads up! This past Spring, paper mag Otaku USA surveyed foreign otaku for a Famitsu article.

News

New AMD Graphics Card Runs Six Screens At Once

Completely pointless from a consumer standpoint, we know, but then, we also know this kind of stuff is cool regardless; witness one of AMD’s new DirectX 11 graphics cards running a game on six monitors.

In Real Life

Huge Gundam Made Smaller

The 1/1 scale Gundam statue in Tokyo’s Odaiba may be gone, but our memories live on and on and on—in statue form.

News

Nintendo Won’t Let You Call A Wii “Firearm” A “Gun”

From Hitler moustaches to “sweat” in Mortal Kombat, Nintendo have a long history of over-reacting to violent content in video games. So it shouldn’t surprise you that you’re not allowed to call a Wii peripheral a “gun”.

News

Why There Is No Camera In iPod Touch

The iPod Touch does not have a camera. Apple honcho Steve Jobs explains why—it’s a game machine.

News

Halo’s Xbox Live Section Opens In November

Microsoft announced today that Halo Waypoint—a section of Xbox Live devoted entirely to all things Halo—will be out in the first week of November.

News

Sony Cuts Nigeria Line From PS3 Slim Ad

Sony’s original PS3 Slim price drop ad may have pleased gamers, but it pissed off the entire nation of Nigeria. The ad was pulled, and now a reworked version has hit the airwaves.

News

Holy Two Million Units Sold, Batman

While the August NPD numbers show Batman: Arkham Asylum had sold 593,000 copies, those numbers don’t include the two weeks of September we’ve had since then. Factor those in and the game’s sold almost two million copies.

Watch Short Bits Of The Brand New Final Fantasy XIII Trailer

At the Final Fantasy XIII Premiere Party, Square Enix showed the new FFXIII Tokyo Game Show trailer. Square Enix would not allow anyone to film the trailer, so we had to describe it.

News

Sony: PS3 Sales Up 300%

If you feel you can stomach more sales “percentages” in lieu of sales “figures”, then Sony’s boast today of a 300% increase in PS3 sales is something you could maybe look into.

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